Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

06aug2006

Shuffled WWDC keynote bingo cards, you’ll need these for tomorrow!

HAProxy, a Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer. HAProxy implements an event-driven, mono-process model which enables support for very high number of simultaneous connections at very high speeds.

Hiroshima - 60 Years On by Trenchfoot

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on the morning of August 6, 1945 the United States Army Air Forces dropped the nuclear weapon “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima, followed three days later by the detonation of the “Fat Man” bomb over Nagasaki, Japan.

Family Reunion, by BJH. “My wife’s grandfather passed away last Tuesday at the age of 92; yesterday was his funeral.”, “Japanese funerals are generally conducted according to Buddhist custom…”.

Joe Nishizawa: Japan’s underground photography, ooh, lovely.

And here’s the release lever
Please grip your hand around it
And later here’s a shovel
To sweep away the ashes
And we’ll need your decision
Just how you plan to handle
The survivors if any
The burned and the screaming
— Dan Bern, Hiroshima

Trivial AJAX, encoding gotchas: comment previews, Mauricio Fernandez explains. How did it go? Three things will survive a nuclear war: cockroaches, Keith Richards and mis-encoded HTML.

OLPC will be caching a snapshot of the Wikipedia on the Children’s Machine. (Our current plan is to distribute the encyclopedia across the mesh, each child hosting some small portion of the content.) Let’s hope they’ll be able to read it…

The rare and valuable Petrified Grapefruit Tree. by shubbe

Hiveminder, The Ultimate To-Do List, a better review than I could ever write. And an excellent site, too. (I’ve got an invited account.)

Und ich lief jahrelang,
nur durch Regen,
oder ob es Tränen waren
ich weiß es heute nicht mehr.
— Toten Hosen, Was zählt

Archimedes Palimpsest, this tenth century manuscript is the unique source for two of Archimedes Treatises, The Method and Stomachion, and it is the unique source for the Greek text of On Floating Bodies.

magic/xml is a Ruby library for convenient parsing of XML. XML::Twig inspired, looks nice.